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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the ... to understand what the value of my MIT education was- we'll get to that ... .  Slowly but surely I'll get to the marathon distance.    

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to ... % of students will have gone to get mental health help. And that

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... daily existence, turns to Google and utters through his eternally ... Google has been able to read minds since 1999? Remember, kids, Google knows

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... , and if we get enough people we could play Castlefall. We could listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  additional living spaces began soon after. Despite an intense desire to get ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... to get used to MIT-level rigor before branching out into their

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm ... 's looking like red, but it's still a little too early to tell. I'll get back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  before you get to have any fun. Truth is I didn't enjoy my engineering ... still pretty psyched to get these. This is the moon: And lastly, the ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another ... , and to use the extra time we'll have to try getting an artistic job

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021